UKRAINE - People are deceived by the U.S. / EU - Nazis and fascists in control of government, formed by US and EU. - In this blog, I will provide the information that the Western press is not willing to give. The purpose is to open the eyes of the Norwegian, European and Ukrainian people about what actually happens in Ukraine, and who’s behind. Some text is mine, but also from friends or I borrow/ bring in from other media

Amid fears of a potentially devastating trade war between the US
and China, Washington has urged Beijing not to implement the ban on US
garbage and recyclable materials that Asia’s giant threatened to impose
last July.

In an effort to battle the "illegal foreign garbage" influx into China, last July China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection notified
the World Trade Organization (WTO) that it plans to ban imports of 24
types of solid waste materials, such as soda bottles, mixed paper,
recycled steel and newsprint. Despite the threat to implement the ban by
the end of the year, the document stated that the “proposed date of adoption” is “to be determined.”

Concerned over the massive impact the ban could have on the US
economy, on Friday the US trade representative urged China to re-examine
its decision.

“We request that China immediately halt
implementation and revise these measures in a manner consistent with
existing international standards for trade in scrap materials, which
provide a global framework for transparent and environmentally sound
trade in recycled commodities,” the US spokesperson noted at the WTO Council for Trade in Goods session in Geneva.

“China’s
import restrictions on recycled commodities have caused a fundamental
disruption in global supply chains for scrap materials, directing them
away from productive reuse and toward disposal,” the trade representative pointed out, according to Reuters.

Washington’s
demand came a day after President Donald Trump ordered the US Trade
Representative (USTR) to levy tariffs on at least $50 billion of Chinese
imports. Although the USTR was given 15 days by Trump to propose a list
of Chinese products that will be targeted, China’s commerce ministry
has already threatened to take legal action against the US through the
WTO. The country is also contemplating targeting 128 American products
through an imposition of harsh import tariffs.

The Chinese Foreign
Ministry also made clear that it has all the necessary means to engage
in a trade war with the US but urged Washington to reconsider its
aggressive economic policy. Beijing warned that “the American consumers and enterprises will bear the brunt” of a trade war with China.

China
is by far the biggest importer of US recyclables. Banning US junk
imports will have a catastrophic impact on the US labor market and will
drive up waste management costs. According to the US Institute of Scrap
Recycling Industries (ISRI), in 2016 alone American scrap exports to
China totaled $5.6 billion and provided the industry with 155,000 jobs.
While the Chinese representative at the meeting in Geneva on Friday
agreed to relate the US-voiced concerns to Beijing, the envoy still
noted that, ultimately, individual countries are responsible for their
own waste.

If the Asian giant closes off its waste management
market, recycling centers across the US will be faced with a hard
choice. They can either hire a much more expensive workforce which would
raise prices for their services, require households to sort their own
waste or be forced to use more landfills across all fifty US states.

The
most viable option would be to redirect the flows of US garbage into
third countries, which, however, may not have facilities for safe
recycling. This would raise concerns over potential environmental
damage, the EU’s representative noted at the WTO meeting.

“In
any given year, approximately one-third of the scrap recycled in the
United States is prepared for shipment to the export market, and China
is the recycling industry's largest customer,” ISRI President Robin Wiener told China Daily earlier. “This
includes more than $1.9 billion in scrap paper and $495 million in
scrap plastics. A ban on imports of scrap commodities into China would
be catastrophic to the recycling industry.”